How to Diversify Your Workout With Focus Mitts Training That Involves a 4 Punch Combo
Posted: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
by Jimmy Smith
http://www.boxingmmastore.com
You do not need a lot of space to do this workout, all you need is a partner to hold the focus mitts straight up so your palms are facing outward for a jab; sideways, your palms is facing towards each other for a hook, and holding your palm down at shoulder width for an uppercut.
What is a Jab? A jab is always going to be your lead leg and lead hand. Hands up chin down. Lean forward with your elbows in and your right hand a little higher than your left. Shift your weight forward with the jab and throw it in a straight line.
What is a Hook? A hook is with arms bent in a L position twisting your body and striking at the same time as you twist. Starting with the legs, unwind your slightly twisted body while twisting your foot on its toe.
What is an Uppercut? An uppercut is lowering your body and keeping your arms up as if you are doing a curl you want to make sure you bend with your legs not your back and coordinate your legs and uppercut strikes at the same time.
One routine is to do 25 jabs then followed by 15 power jabs in under 1 minute. Make sure you do both sides for your eye hand coordination and balance. After you have done that you will do the same jab followed by a cross and again do both sides the same in under 2 minutes. Take a 20 to 30 second break. After that you do the jab, cross, hook again 25 speed and 15 power behind your strikes and do this in under 3 minutes for both sides. Then you will again do the jab, cross, hook, uppercut and doing them 25 combos followed by 15 power strikes in under 3 minutes 30 seconds. You can do this combo workout in under twenty minutes. If that was too easy for you all you have to do is reduce the time down to 20, 30, 45 seconds etc. The main thing is to listen to your body and not overdo it when you are first starting.
What a great workout you just did, by using focus mitts while training with a 4 punch combo.
Things needed for the workout are training gloves and focus mitts (also known as punch mitt, boxing pads and curved punch mitt).
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Very interesting workout Jimmy! Thanks for putting it in simple terms so that the unathletic like me can understand!Hi Laurathanks for reading my workout if you have any questions please let me know.
time management and work out can be very hard to followIf you can do your workouts in the morning that way it is out of the way for the rest of day. I tell people to listen to your body your body will tell you how hard or easy to go.
I didn't know there was so much variation in punching. I think I'll try this workout but without the equipment at first.The punching variation is only limited by your imagination. Here is another way to do this without any equipment use a mirror. Your face will be the target that way you can see how your technique is. Let me know if you would like more information and thank you for reading my article.
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